There are a number of reasons why "They need a Hugo Chavez there" is not the answer (the answer is we need a workers government and socialism, and fewer cheerleaders who applaud the reform of capitalism and the redistribution of the diminishing income available instead of the liquidation of capitalism and the foundation of society upon new social bases).
First of all, the Wichi and Qom are carrying out a great struggle of their own, which has found support in the provincial capitals, and provoked a political crisis in the province of Formosa. Check out the article published just last Thursday in Prensa Obrera on this subject: http://po.org.ar/blog/2013/03/21/la-fenomenal-lucha-de-los-pueblos-originarios/ (Spanish) Incredible struggle of the indigenous peoples. The Wichi are struggling for water, electric energy, health (no ambulances, 80 deaths due to lack of access to basic public health), justice and land (as in the case of the Qom). The article explains how the expansion of big soybean agriculture encroaches on their land, while the aggravation of the capitalist crisis in general hits them especially hard on all fronts. The center left government of Cristina Kirchner and their cohorts in the provincial government has been looking the other way for years. "After denying their claims, they accuse the Wichi of being terrorists". The Partido Obrero (Workers Party (Argentina)) and the youth in the provincial capital of Formosa have been supporting the struggle. The PO of Formosa demands "immediate withdrawal of repressive forces and the demilitarization of the Wichi territory, the immediate installation of basic sanitary facilities, ambulances, hospitals, medical personnel, provision of water and electrical energy and the immediate restitution of land to the Wichi. A province-wide workers congress is planned with the support of combative trade unions supporting the struggle, in order to achieve the conquest of their demands. Secondly, Chavez' defense of the original, indigenous peoples in Venezuela, although strong in kind words, comes up very short in actual fact. I have already referenced the article by Opción Obrera (Venezuela) http://opcion-obrera.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/las-instituciones-del-estado-complice.html which explains the true state of affairs in its title: LAS INSTITUCIONES DEL ESTADO CÓMPLICE DE LOS SICARIOS ASESINOS DE SABINO ROMERO NO TIENEN AVAL PARA REALIZAR LAS INVESTIGACIONES (The state institutions, in complicity with the para military assassins of Sabino Romero are helpless to investigate. That is, as usual, they were strong on words and short on deeds. On March 4, a request was made to investigate, and the Chavista Attorney General (Fiscalía general de la república) promised an "objective investigation." The article says "the social groups that denounce the assassination of Sabino Romero, as a consequence of the evident impunity of action enjoyed by those opposed to recognizing the rights of the Yukpa people, with the complicity of the State, should demand in the streets, with a huge demonstration, an [independent] investigative commission capable of getting to the bottom of who the material and intellectual authors of the assassination of Sabino Romero are". Opción Obrera posted an article the day before (3/3/2013), entitled "Sabino Romero was murdered by paramilitary thugs with the complicity of the State" http://opcion-obrera.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/sabino-romero-fue-asesinado-por.html Victor Kane Buenos Aires / Los Angeles --- In laamn@yahoogroups.com, Romi Elnagar <bluesapphire48@...> wrote: > > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > From: HL > > > > > FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013 > Argentina, Formosa: eviction alert Pampa Twenty Wichi community > Luis Gauna (RED ECO) The Coroner and Corrections of the City of Las Lomitas, > Sergio Rolando Lopez, ordered the immediate eviction of the families in the > community of Pampa Twenty Wichi. Judge upheld the action of amparo " > usurpation "and ordered the" immediate evacuation "of all occupants of the > community located in the Colonia Juan Bautista Alerdi, department formoseño > Patiño. The measure was notified to the Wichi community this Thursday March > 21, will benefit the lawyer and landowner Ramón Juárez and his wife Carmen > Raquel Chevez, who claims to own the land they inhabit the original > community. community comes Twenty Pampa denouncing the actions of Juarez who > introduces his wife as the owner of the land by means of papers "highly > dubious character and false" and in November last year by security forces in > Formosa, ordered the eviction and encroachment land of 15 families of this > community. Also, do not skimp on with thugs threaten and > intimidate them on several occasions. Given this context, in February there > had been a demonstration outside the Courts of Las Lomitas to present a > petition to the justice authorities and the Department claiming the situation > Emergency and dispossession living because these abuses and violations of > their rights as native people to use the ancestrally inhabited territory. > Interwichi organization denounced at the time the territorial reduction of > Pampas community has been suffering Twenty (went from 10 only 500 hectares) > from Juarez, who, according spokesmen said the community has supported local > justice, which is part of a lawyer. At press time, there are no accurate data > on when eviction will take place Wichi community.Sources: National Meeting of > Indigenous Territorial Organizations / Community wichi Twenty Pampa. Click > here to receive free Argenpress in your email. > The Wichí are an indigenous people of South America. They are a large group > of tribes ranging about the headwaters of the Bermejo River and the Pilcomayo > River, in Argentina and Bolivia. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wich%C3%AD > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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